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The Blockade Runner Beach Resort in Wrightsville Beach is rebranding with a new name, according to a press release from Castle Peak Holdings. The historic resort property dates to 1964 and had ...
Wrightsville Beach is a town in New Hanover County, North Carolina, United States. Wrightsville Beach is just east of Wilmington and is part of the Wilmington Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 2,477 at the 2010 census. The town consists of a 4-mile (6 km) long beach island, an interior island called Harbor Island, and pockets of ...
Sweet n Savory's Epicurean Bistro at 1978 Eastwood Road near Wrightsville Beach is closed. Owner Rob Shapiro posted on social media about the sister restaurant to the popular Sweet n Savory Cafe.
Wilmington was a major port for Confederate Blockade Runners, who used the two Cape Fear River inlets to slip past the Federal blockade and bring much-needed European goods to the war effort. Fort Fisher , on the lower tip of the Federal Point Peninsula, was the site of a major amphibious battle in 1865 (perhaps the largest in US history to ...
Mistaken for a blockade runner and rammed by USS Monticello off Kure Beach. [6] Pevensey Confederate States: Blockade runner, sank off Atlantic Beach. Phantom Confederate States: 1863 Steel-hulled blockade runner; sunk at Topsail Inlet. USS Pilgrim United States: 1935 Patrol vessel that was scuttled off Harkers Island as a breakwater.
PS Scotia was a steam paddle passenger vessel that ran between Wales and Ireland from 1847 to 1861, and then became an American Civil War blockade runner. Renamed General Banks, then Fanny and Jenny, she ran agound in February 1864 attempting to reach Wilmington, North Carolina.
Figure Eight Island is located just north of Wrightsville Beach and Wilmington. The island has an area of 1,300 acres (526 ha), [ 1 ] most of which is marshland . Between the northernmost part of Figure Eight and Lea-Hutaff Island lies Rich Inlet, one of the few natural inlets in North Carolina. [ 49 ]
CSS Chickamauga, originally the blockade runner Edith, was purchased by the Confederate States Navy at Wilmington, North Carolina, in September 1864.In September, when she was nearly ready for sea, the Confederate Army sought unsuccessfully to retain her at that place for use as a troop and supply transport.